FBI identifies "Mega-D" botnet creator

Trent Nouveau, 1st December 2010

The FBI is reportedly investigating a Russian man suspected of creating the nefarious "Mega-D" botnet, which infected more than 500,000 computers and sent an average of ten billion spam e-mails per day.

According to The Smoking Gun, Oleg Nikolaenko's unwanted messages accounted for nearly a third of the annoying spam clogging the Internet.

Unsurprisingly, Nikolaenko is accused of violating a US anti-spam law and "abetting violations of the mail and wire fraud statutes."